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Streamline Health Solutions Inc. Stock Downgraded (STRM)

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NEW YORK (
TheStreet)
-- Streamline Health Solutions (Nasdaq:
STRM) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and weak operating cash flow.

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Highlights from the ratings report include:

The revenue growth greatly exceeded the industry average of 15.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 49.1%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.

This stock has managed to rise its share value by 301.19% over the past twelve months. Although STRM had significant growth over the past year, our hold rating indicates that we do not recommend additional investment in this stock at the current time.

STRM's debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64 is somewhat low overall, but it is high when compared to the industry average, implying that the management of the debt levels should be evaluated further. Regardless of the somewhat mixed results with the debt-to-equity ratio, the company's quick ratio of 1.02 is sturdy.

Return on equity has greatly decreased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of major weakness within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Health Care Technology industry and the overall market, STREAMLINE HEALTH SOLUTIONS's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.

Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to -$2.58 million or 213.83% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.

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Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. provides workflow and document management technology solutions that enhance efficiencies and business processes for hospitals and physician groups in North America. The company has a P/E ratio of 38.6, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Streamline Health has a market cap of $87.7 million and is part of the technology sector and computer software & services industry. Shares are up 22% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.